How to Create Icons: 25 Best Tutorials

Icons play important role in interactive and web design. Icons are essential in most graphical user interface to make it more attractive. They are real visual elements in your design for executing tasks or navigate to a certain location.

You can find hundreds of online resources that can help and inspire you in your own icon designs and in this collection we hand-picked 25 best tutorials on how to create icons. These tutorial will help you to learn about designing icons. If you know about other icon designing tutorials, don’t forget to share them with us in the comments below.

In this tutorial we will learn how to create wallet icon using simple techniques and objects. To round the corners of multiple rectangles, we will be using the Dynamic Corners Tool, part of the (VectorScribe plugin), which is much easier to use and accelerates our work.

Learn how to design a calendar icon in Adobe Illustrator. This tutorial covers the step-by-step process of designing this vector icon in Illustrator using tools such as: shape building tools, brushes, a round corner script, and multiple gradient colors.

Learn how to make a unique RSS feed icon. This tutorial requires a familiarity with Adobe Illustrator’s basic tools as you’ll use the gradient mesh tool and make light use of Illustrators mapping feature.